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Funding Opportunity for Early-Career Investigators
Applications now open! If you’re an early career researcher interested in health systems research for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), we invite you to apply for our Emerging Investigators (EI) Guided Research Program. Up to three projects focused on health systems research for CYSHCN will be funded up to $15,000 (1-year). The program has
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Dr. Ellen Roy Elias Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Caring for Children with Medical Complexity
The Systems and Policy Research Network (SPRNetwork formally known as CYSHCNet) is proud to announce Dr. Ellen Roy Elias as a recipient of the 2025 Pediatric Complex Care Lifetime Achievement Award. This honor celebrates Dr. Elias’s extraordinary career as a clinician, researcher, teacher, mentor, and advocate, whose work has transformed the care of children with
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Congratulations to Nora Wells and John Gordon, MD
CYSHCNet is thrilled to announce Nora Wells and John Gordon, M.D., as recipients of the 2024 Pediatric Complex Care Lifetime Achievement Award. The Pediatric Complex Care Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates individuals who have made lifelong, exceptional, long-lasting contributions to help children with medical complexity in many areas, including clinical care delivery, advocacy, policy, administration, research, and